Cipher, 2009, 22" x 36" charcoal on watercolor paper (Click image to view larger)
Michael Rosenthal is pleased to present Lapidary Terrarium, Mary Conrad’s San Francisco debut exhibition of installation works, paintings, and drawings. In this show, Conrad explores the concept of Lapidary Terrarium as the specialized and expertly crafted social and environmental spaces in which we enclose ourselves. Acting as an anthropologist, Conrad mediates a banal and strange world to examine the historical and social impacts on our shared consciousness of language, signs, currency and packaging. Sharing the same title as the exhibition, the large installation in the center of the gallery looms gallantly over and illuminates everyday objects and materials to suggest that there are other uses and meanings behind the mundane. Conrad takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to her art making that mirrors her academic background in literature and architecture, yielding results of poetic prowess.
Mary Conrad received her Bachelors of Arts, cum laude in English Literature from Cornell University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University after attending the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Conrad recently installed the sculpture Tell Your Stories Here in the Tenderloin National Forest – Luggage Store Annex, created in 2006 while in residence at the Luggage Store Annex. Born in the United States, Conrad lived abroad for many years in France and Indonesia as well as in Sri Lanka while in grade school.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Venues
Happening today
September 2nd, 2010
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Mary V. Marsh
Everyone Needs a Story
through 9/25/2010 at Mercury 20 Gallery
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Laura Van Duren
Not For Sale
through 9/25/2010 at Mercury 20 Gallery
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Maya Kabat, Charlie Milgrim, Joan Weiss
Strange Nature
through 9/25/2010 at Mercury 20 Gallery
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Jeremiah Jenkins
Blue Collar Bushido
through 9/30/2010 at Ever Gold
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Tom Lieber
Descend Ascend
through 10/2/2010 at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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David Buckingham
Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful
through 10/2/2010 at Cain Schulte Gallery
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Group show
Everyday
through 10/2/2010 at 111 Minna Gallery
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Group show
Residency Projects Part II
through 10/9/2010 at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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Bella Feldman, Nancy Otto, Monica Steiner
Bella Feldman, Monika Steiner, Nancy Otto
through 10/30/2010 at Micaëla Gallery
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Allison Smith
Pitcher Collection
through 10/30/2010 at Haines Gallery
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Tokihiro Sato
Trees
through 10/30/2010 at Haines Gallery
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Group show
On View: New Work from Kala
through 11/27/2010 at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
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Jerome Reyes
Until Today: Spectres for the International Hotel
through 12/4/2010
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Craft Bar with Etsy Labs
6:00pm - 9:00pm at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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Exploratorium After Dark – Cosmological Constructs
6:00pm - 10:00pm at Exploratorium
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Joshua Short
Josh Short
6:00pm - 10:00pm at Ever Gold
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Artists Leading Artists Opening Reception
7:30pm - 9:00pm at Swell Gallery
What’s new
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Group show
Fall 2010
9/7/2010 - 10/30/2010 at Aurobora Press
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Group show
You Knew This Was Coming
9/17/2010 - 10/18/2010 at Park Life
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With Love from Mabel (ongoing tours of the SFADM) at SC13
9/5/2010 2:30pm - 3:00pm
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Beast
10/1/2010 - 10/23/2010 at Million Fishes Gallery
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Physics of Toys
9/18/2010 11:00am - 3:00pm at Exploratorium
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Anoka Faruqee
The Longest Day of the Year
9/7/2010 - 10/16/2010 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Marietta Hoferer
Drawings
9/7/2010 - 10/16/2010 at Hosfelt Gallery
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Scott Kildall, Victoria Scott
Gift Horse
9/18/2010 3:00pm - 5:00pm at San Jose Museum of Art
Happenstand is a lackadaisical venture
Support for this program is provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant
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